Linguistic Dilemmas of Afrocentricity

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Incorporating Tensions 1
4. Language and Ideology 23
5. Pragmatism, Ideology and Embodiment 49
6. Does Cognitive Linguistics Live up to its Name? 83
7. Ideological Ground and Relevant Interpretation in a Cognitive Semantics 107
8. Linguistic Dilemmas of Afrocentricity 141
9. Age/Gender Morphemes Inherit the Biases of their Underlying Dimensions 165
10. How Pervasive are Sexist Ideologies in Grammar? 197
11. Cognitive Linguistics and the Marxist Approach to Ideology 227
12. Linguistics and Ideology in 19th and 20th Century Studies of Language 253
13. Cultural and Conceptual Relativism, Universalism and the Politics of Linguistics 277
14. Index 297